Alignment to Standards for NC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | SC:2.E.1 | Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather. |
| 2 | SC:2.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur over time and relate observable patterns to time of day and time of year. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1 | Understand animal life cycles. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.1 | Summarize the life cycle of animals: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, aging and death, |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.2 | Compare life cycles of different animals such as, but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1 | effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1.2 | how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.1 | structures and systems of organisms perform functions necessary for life. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2 | Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.2 | Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors). |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3.2 | Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |
| K | SC:K.E.1 | Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.1 | Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made using one or more of their senses. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season. |
| K | SC:K.L.1 | Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike and different from other animals and nonliving things. |
| K | SC:K.P.2.1 | Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). |
